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In Palm Beach County, customers can buy syringes without a prescription. But that's not the case for the rest of South Florida. A pair of 46-year-old ordinances in Broward and Miami-Dade counties require a prescription to purchase needles. When adopted in...

The Liver Institute recently opened a new clinic in Fort Lauderdale specializing in evaluating, managing and treating acute and chronic liver disease, including complex viral infections such as Hepatitis B and C and HIV/AIDS.Located at 700 SE 3rd...

United Way of Broward County Commission on Substance Abuse needs your help in putting a syringe exchange pilot program in place in to help create a safer and healthier community for all of us. The commission is a broad-based substance use/abuse...

Natalie Cole, the daughter of jazz legend Nat King Cole, who carved out her own success with R&B hits like "Our Love" and "This Will Be" before triumphantly intertwining their legacies to make his "Unforgettable" their signature hit through...

100 of South Florida's most influential people weigh in on current events. Read their thoughts on the biggest stories of the week and see what they think will make headlines next week.
Anthony Abbate, Florida Atlantic University, Associate...

The death toll in San Diego’s hepatitis A outbreak increased by one Tuesday, and the region’s top public health official said she has not seen any signs yet of a slowdown in the public health emergency that has now killed 17 people.Standing in the hallway...

Public health authorities on Tuesday declared an outbreak of the highly contagious liver disease hepatitis A in Los Angeles County, the third California region to see significant infections this year. Health officials reported the outbreak to the county...

Health officials in San Diego have scrambled for months to contain an outbreak of hepatitis A — vaccinating more than 19,000 people, putting up posters at bus stations and distributing hand sanitizer and cleansing wipes.
Despite those efforts, 16...

Shares of Achillion Pharmaceuticals Inc. tumbled 22 percent Monday after Janssen Pharmaceuticals Inc. informed the New Haven company it was ending its license and collaboration arrangement on hepatitis C.
Janssen, one of the Janssen Pharmaceutical...

Alcohol abuse is not the only factor that can lead to fatty liver disease. Americans’ gluttonous diets are also leading to another form called non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, which is just as damaging. Dr. Thomas W. Faust, a gastroenterologist at...

The Seminole County health department is inviting the public to get tested for Hepatitis on World Hepatitis Day, July 28.
The county health department offers free hepatitis testing daily as part of its Hepatitis Prevention Program.
Where: 400 West...

In this city on the east bank of the Mississippi River, Rebekah Gee, Louisiana's health secretary, presides over what she calls the "public-health-crisis cradle" of America. Poverty and poor health collide here to produce some of the nation's worst rates of obesity, premature birth and other maladies....

The heroin epidemic is driving up hepatitis C infections, with the biggest increase in people in their 20s, U.S. health officials said Thursday. The number of new infections nearly tripled in five years, to about 2,400 in 2015. The virus is spread by...

Roll up your sleeves, America. A national advisory panel of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released its 2017 advisory for recommended shots affecting adults.
This year's advisory revises guidance on seasonal flu shots by...

Needle-sharing by opiate addicts is fueling an alarming rise in new HIV infections among injection drug users, and the United States doesn't have enough syringe programs in place to reduce that risk, according to a report released Tuesday.
Although...

Jerome Zeldis remembers exactly how he felt when he heard about the $84,000 price tag on a powerful new hepatitis C treatment three years ago.
"I was somewhere between annoyed and outraged," recalled Zeldis, the former chief medical officer of the...

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I'm a 62-year-old man with no health problems. At my last checkup, my doctor recommended that I be tested for hepatitis C, even though I don't have any symptoms. Is this really necessary?
ANSWER: It is important for people in your age...

Heather Bresch, chief executive of pharmaceutical heavyweight Mylan, testified before lawmakers Wednesday that her company acted ethically and fairly when it jacked up the price of life-saving EpiPens by more than 500 percent.
While saying she was...

Nothing about a Washington state lawsuit called B.E. v. Teeter is as simple as it seems.
It was filed this year by two hepatitis C patients against the state's Medicaid program to help the poor gain access to drugs such as Gilead Sciences Inc.'s...

The state of Illinois has backed off a 2-year-old policy that allowed only its sickest residents with hepatitis C who rely on the traditional Medicaid program to get disease-curing drugs.
The policy change, announced Friday evening, means Illinois...